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A March snowstorm in Barcelona: climate vs weather

A March snowstorm in Barcelona: climate vs weather

March 8, 2010 and it snowed in Barcelona. This is a city where the average low temperature for the month is 9 degrees. The very unusual snowstorm caused the city to semi-shutdown: the buses stopped running, schools shut down and some neighborhoods lost electricity.El Niño probably played a hand ... read more

3 days, 1 hour ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  comments

Living like it's 2050: Transition Farm in North Carolina

Living like it's 2050: Transition Farm in North Carolina

"By 2050 we will probably use about double the amount of energy we use today, that is if we keep on doing things as we always have."- First report of the UK Industry Task Force on Peak Oil & Energy Security (ITPOES).The Transition Towns movement was started in Ireland, and ... read more

4 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  1 comments

What hackers can teach greenies and Sarah Palin as eco-model

What hackers can teach greenies and Sarah Palin as eco-model

I was publicly criticized by a few hackers* last week and after a bit of soul searching, I've decided their action-oriented ethos may be what's needed to help fix what's wrong with the fight against climate change. (*I'm using the term hacker in reference to computer ... read more

3 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  6 comments

Hackers on happiness & tiny houses, plus The Story of Stuff

Hackers on happiness & tiny houses, plus The Story of Stuff

Last week, my husband posted to Hacker News a link to my video about a guy who lives in a 96-square-foot home. It seems hackers like small houses. Within hours, a couple thousand of them had visited the video.Their comments were different from the average green blog crowd. Besides ... read more

3 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  8 comments

La geoingeniería más efectiva: menos hijos y menos carne

La geoingeniería más efectiva: menos hijos y menos carne

El modo más efectivo, drástico y económico de luchar contra el cambio climático y catástrofes como la deforestación no ha surgido del departamento de investigación de ninguna empresa puntera de Silicon Valley, ni mezcla las virtudes de la geoingeniería con las llamadas tecnologías limpias, o cleantech.Nada de eso. El ... read more

5 months, 2 weeks ago by: nicolas.boullosa  staff  comments

Slow down. My philosophy for life also applies to the road.

Simple step easily available to nearly all Americans, which costs nothing, and makes a real difference. read more

7 months, 1 week ago by: BioDieselHauling  user  comments

Climate control for sidewalks: making stores close the door

Climate control for sidewalks: making stores close the door

A loophole exists in our global warming awareness. As most of us are are investing in energy saving appliances and insulating our homes to cut the need for climate control, there's a large segment of our communities that still find it acceptable to run the air conditioning or heating ... read more

8 months, 1 week ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  / nicolas.boullosa  staff  2 comments

Can whitewash, tinted windows & closed doors save the earth?

Can whitewash, tinted windows & closed doors save the earth?

The fight against climate change has taken a rather low-tech turn lately. Obama's Energy Secretary Stephen Chu wants to fight climate change by whitewashing the world's roofs roads and pavements.California's air regulators are requiring automakers, beginning in 2012, to install sun-reflecting glass in the windows of ... read more

8 months, 1 week ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  comments

Thoreau's simple life at Walden

Thoreau's simple life at Walden

"In wildness is the preservation of the world," wrote Henry David Thoreau in 1851 at a time when he was one of the few thinking about environmental conservation. Six years previous he had embarked on a now-famous experiment in simple living. He'd gone to the woods outside Boston to ... read more

9 months ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  comments

Jetter l'énergie par les portes

Jetter l'énergie par les portes

encourager les magasins à fermer la porte. read more

8 months, 1 week ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  2 comments

 

 

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